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A collection of life-affirming poems to guide you through. Settle down with 100 Poems to Live By and learn which verses can be dispensed to lift your spirits.
A brilliant new anthology of 100 poems designed to lift your mood and help you to overcome stress, specific worries, and general anxiety. Features well-known favorites alongside undiscovered gems and modern classics. Each poem is introduced, explaining how it can help a certain ‘ailment’ and offering the poem as a helpful prescription. Offering a wide range of verses that will be of great benefit to those in need of a pick-me-up for the soul.
100 Poems to Live By brings together some of the best works from poets spanning centuries, including:
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Dickinson
- Seamus Heaney
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- And more!
Compiled by Joseph Piercy, these specially selected lines will bring comfort, banish melancholy, provide hope, and give courage.
These are 100 life-affirming remedies for anyone searching for love, meaning, belonging, purpose, and fulfilment in their everyday lives. The poetic prescriptions will see you through whatever comes your way in life, and can be referenced, shared, and treasured for many years to come.
Praise for the series:
"[S]uccessfully illustrates how stories can connect people to universal human experiences, showing how literature can be a balm for the soul." - Library Journal (starred review)
“The self-help companion 100 Books to Life By answers the bibliophile’s questions of ‘What should I read next?’ from a mental health perspective.” - Foreword
Adcock, Fleur, ‘Things’
Agard, John, ‘Diversity in de Market’
Akhmatova, Anna, ‘The Sentence’
Armitage, Simon, ‘You’re Beautiful’
Arnold, Matthew, ‘Growing Old’
Auden, W. H., ‘Funeral Blues’
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, ‘Work’
Baudelaire, Charles, ‘Intoxication’
Beckett, Samuel, ‘Cascando’
Bishop, Elizabeth, ‘One Art’
Blake, William, ‘A Poison Tree’
Brontë, Anne, ‘Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day’
Brontë, Charlotte, ‘Life’
Brontë, Emily, ‘Hope’
Brooke, Rupert, ‘The Treasure’
Browning, Robert, ‘Meeting at Night’
Burns, Robert, ‘A Red, Red Rose’
Byron, George Gordon, ‘When We Two Parted’
Clare, John, ‘First Love’
Cleary, Brendan, ‘Lasagne’
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ‘Kubla Khan’
Coolidge, Susan, ‘A Lonely Moment’
Cope, Wendy, ‘Spared’
Cowper, William, ‘The Jackdaw’
Creeley, Robert, ‘Oh’
Day-Lewis, Cecil, ‘Walking Away’
de la Mare, Walter, ‘Good-bye’
Dickinson, Emily, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
Donne, John, ‘No Man Is an Island’
Dowson, Ernest, ‘You Would Have Understood Me, Had You Waited’
Dryden, John, ‘Farewell Ungrateful Traitor’
Duffy, Carol Ann, ‘We Remember Your Childhood Well’
Ehrmann, Max, ‘Desiderata’
Eliot, George, ‘Count That Day Lost’
Eliot, T. S., ‘The Hollow Men’
Frost, Robert, ‘The Road Not Taken’
García Lorca, Federico, ‘The Faithless Wife’
Ginsberg, Allen, ‘Velocity of Money’
Graves, Robert, ‘Down, Wanton, Down!’
Hafiz, ‘Beauty Is a Waving Tree’ (copyright holder is the translator, Elizabeth Daryush, Carcanet Press)
Hardy, Thomas, ‘Between Us Now’
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, ‘The Windhover’
Horace, ‘Odes 3:29’
Hughes, Frieda, ‘Stonepicker’
Hughes, Langston, ‘As I Grew Older’
Jonson, Ben, ‘Doing, a Filthy Pleasure Is, and Short’
Joyce, James, ‘At That Hour’
Kavanagh, Patrick, ‘On Raglan Road’
Kay, Jackie, ‘Keeping Orchids’
Keats, John, ‘To Autumn’
Kipling, Rudyard, ‘If’
Lawrence, D. H., ‘Intimates’
Mandelstam, Osip, ‘I Was a Child in the World of the Powerful’
Marlowe, Christopher, ‘Who Ever Loved That Loved Not at First Sight’
Marvell, Andrew, ‘The Definition of Love’
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, ‘Listen!’ (no licence needed, just a credit line)
Meynell, Alice, ‘Renouncement’
Milton, John, ‘On His Blindness’
Moore, Thomas, ‘An Argument’
Naidu, Sarojini, ‘Cradle Song’
Neruda, Pablo, ‘Here I love You’
Nichols, Grace, ‘Price We Pay for the Sun’
Nye, Naomi Shihab, ‘Mediterranean Blue’
Owen, Wilfred, ‘Futility’
Parker, Dorothy, ‘A Dream Lies Dead’
Pasternak, Boris, ‘February’
Piñero, Miguel, ‘La Bodega Sold Dreams’
Poe, Edgar Allan, ‘A Dream Within a Dream’
Pope, Alexander, ‘Ode on Solitude’
Pushkin, Alexander, ‘Consolation’
Rimbaud, Arthur, ‘The Sleeper in the Valley’
Rossetti, Christina, ‘Remember’
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, ‘Sudden Light’
Schiller, Friedrich, ‘The Conflict’
Scott, Walter, ‘An Hour with Thee’
Shakespeare, William, ‘All the World’s a Stage’
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, ‘Ozymandias’
Smith, Stevie, ‘Not Waving but Drowning'
Stevens, Wallace, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, ‘A Leave-Taking’
Tagore, Rabindranath, ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’
Teasdale, Sara, ‘Stars’
Tennyson, Alfred, ‘Come Not, When I Am Dead’
Thomas, Dylan, ‘Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night’
Thomas, Edward, ‘The Owl’
Tsvetaeva, Marina, ‘Girlfriend’
Tyutchev, Fyodor, ‘The Last Love’
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, ‘Restless Love’
Whitman, Walt, ‘O Captain! My Captain!’
Wilde, Oscar, ‘Sonnet to Liberty’
Wordsworth, William, ‘The World Is Too Much with Us’
Yeats, W. B., ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’
Zephaniah, Benjamin, ‘Dis Poetry’